System and method for providing strategic solution for high volume on real time feeds

ABSTRACT

A method for distributing data process according to technical resource capacity availability and constraints across a network is disclosed. The method includes receiving, at a database, a feed request for processing by a computing resource, among a network of computing resources that are geographically dispersed. Further, the method includes identifying, among the network of computing resources, a computing resource for processing the feed request based on the at least one attribute and processing capacity of the computing resources, and assigning the feed request for processing to the identified computing resource in real-time and without predetermined assignment to process increase in data volume by leveraging remotely located and/or underutilized computing resources.

TECHNICAL FIELD

This disclosure generally relates to a system and method for providing astrategic solution for high volume on real time feeds. Morespecifically, this disclosure relates to a system and method forprioritizing, diverting, and/or identifying events for targeteddistribution or allocation of technical resources for improvedprocessing capability of real time feeds.

BACKGROUND

The developments described in this section are known to the inventors.However, unless otherwise indicated, it should not be assumed that anyof the developments described in this section qualify as prior artmerely by virtue of their inclusion in this section, or that thosedevelopments are known to a person of ordinary skill in the art.

Presently, a downstream feed system may perform real time processing ofevents in a large organization requires high processing level andresources to analyze and generate messages to be sent to variousdownstream systems. Such a system may manage high volumes oftransactions, which may often run up against technical resource orcapacity constraints, such as memory, CPU, and capacity available at anassigned computer/server or a group of computers/servers.

Further, regulatory offices or downstream systems may each have policiesregarding times to be updated for the volumes of transactions. Variousreports may be required to be generated and sent to the regulatoryoffices complying with such times, and using expected protocols.However, with incremental increases in the volumes of transactions,machine capacity for assigned computers/servers may be overloaded andjeopardize commitment to such rules.

SUMMARY

According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a method fordistributing data process according to technical resource capacityavailability and constraints across a network is provided. The methodincludes performing, using a processor and a memory: receiving, at adatabase, a feed request for processing; in response to receiving thefeed request, informing, a data stream and by the database, of thereceipt of the feed request at the database; acquiring the feed requestby the data stream; reading and parsing the feed request for determiningat least one attribute of the feed request; identifying, among multiplecomputing resources spread across a network, a computing resource forprocessing the feed request based on the at least one attribute andprocessing capacity at the multiple computing resources; assigning thefeed request for processing to the identified computing resource;processing, at the identified computing resource, the feed request;generating, at the identified computing resource, a downstreamtransaction for the processed feed request, and saving the downstreamtransaction at the database; generating, at the identified computingresource, a message indicating processing of the feed request, andsaving the message at the database; returning, to the message feeder,the downstream transaction and the message; and updating the databasebased on the returned downstream transaction and the message.

According to another aspect of the present disclosure, the identifiedcomputing resource is located remotely.

According to another aspect of the present disclosure, the identifiedcomputing resource is located in a cloud network.

According to yet another aspect of the present disclosure, the datastream is informed of the received feed request in real time forprocessing of the feed request upon receipt of the feed request at thedatabase.

According to another aspect of the present disclosure, the multiplecomputing resources are spread across various geographies, countries orcontinents.

According to a further aspect of the present disclosure, the at leastone attribute includes a priority level for processing of the feedrequest.

According to yet another aspect of the present disclosure, an amount ofdelay before processing is determined based on the priority level.

According to a further aspect of the present disclosure, the at leastone attribute includes a geographic location for processing the feedrequest.

According to another aspect of the present disclosure, the at least oneattribute includes a memory and time limit.

According to a further aspect of the present disclosure, the at leastone attribute includes a dedicated processing requirement.

According to a further aspect of the present disclosure, the methodfurther includes generating a report based on information updated on thedatabase.

According to a further aspect of the present disclosure, the reportindicates, for a computing resource, at least one of a number ofprocesses running per minute, a number of tasks processed per process,time percentage that each process was running, time to process a task, anumber of tasks in a backlog, and a number of tasks of a same type inthe backlog.

According to a further aspect of the present disclosure, the feedrequest received by the database for processing is a feed requestfiltered according to an event type.

According to a further aspect of the present disclosure, the at leastone attribute includes a priority level for processing of the feedrequest, and the priority level for the feed request is set by a user oraccording to an event type of the feed request.

According to another aspect of the present disclosure, the methodfurther includes receiving, at the database, a subsequent feed requestfor processing; in response to receiving the subsequent feed request,informing, the data stream and by the database, of the receipt of thesubsequent feed request at the database; acquiring the subsequent feedrequest by the data stream; reading and parsing the subsequent feedrequest for determining at least one attribute of the subsequent feedrequest; checking to determine whether the feed request has beenassigned for processing prior to assigning the subsequent feed requestfor processing; and removing the subsequent feed request from thedatabase if the existing feed request has not yet been assigned forprocessing.

According to another aspect of the present disclosure, each feed requeststems from a deal, and the method further includes ordering of feedrequests according to a deal the feed requests stem from, such that datafor the deal is read only once during processing of a first feed requeststemming from the deal for faster processing.

According to another aspect of the present disclosure, a lower prioritylevel feed request is processed by a computing resource that is locatedfurther way than a higher priority level feed request.

According to another aspect of the present disclosure, the feed requestis dynamically assigned for processing in real-time without apredetermined assignment to a computing resource.

According to another aspect of the present disclosure, a system fordistributing data process according to technical resource capacityavailability and constraints across a network is disclosed. The systemincludes at least one processor; at least one memory; and at least onecommunication circuit. The at least one processor is configured to:receive, at a database, a feed request for processing; in response toreceiving the feed request, inform, a data stream and by the database,of the receipt of the feed request at the database; acquire the feedrequest by the data stream; read and parse the feed request fordetermining at least one attribute of the feed request; identify, amongmultiple computing resources spread across a network, a computingresource for processing the feed request based on the at least oneattribute and processing capacity at the multiple computing resources;assign the feed request for processing to the identified computingresource; process, at the identified computing resource, the feedrequest; generate, at the identified computing resource, a downstreamtransaction for the processed feed request, and save the downstreamtransaction at the database; generate, at the identified computingresource, a message indicating processing of the feed request, and savethe message at the database; return, to the message feeder, thedownstream transaction and the message; and update the database based onthe returned downstream transaction and the message.

According to another aspect of the present disclosure, a non-transitorycomputer readable storage medium that stores a computer program fordistributing data process according to technical resource capacityavailability and constraints across a network is disclosed. The computerprogram, when executed by a processor, causing a system to perform aprocess including receiving, at a database, a feed request forprocessing; in response to receiving the feed request, informing, a datastream and by the database, of the receipt of the feed request at thedatabase; acquiring the feed request by the data stream; reading andparsing the feed request for determining at least one attribute of thefeed request; identifying, among multiple computing resources spreadacross a network, a computing resource for processing the feed requestbased on the at least one attribute and processing capacity at themultiple computing resources; assigning the feed request for processingto the identified computing resource; processing, at the identifiedcomputing resource, the feed request; generating, at the identifiedcomputing resource, a downstream transaction for the processed feedrequest, and saving the downstream transaction at the database;generating, at the identified computing resource, a message indicatingprocessing of the feed request, and saving the message at the database;returning, to the message feeder, the downstream transaction and themessage; and updating the database based on the returned downstreamtransaction and the message.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The present disclosure is further described in the detailed descriptionwhich follows, in reference to the noted plurality of drawings, by wayof non-limiting examples of preferred embodiments of the presentdisclosure, in which like characters represent like elements throughoutthe several views of the drawings.

FIG. 1 illustrates a computer system for implementing a technicalresource capacity distribution/allocation (TRCDA) system in accordancewith an exemplary embodiment.

FIG. 2 illustrates an exemplary diagram of a network environment with atechnical resource capacity distribution/allocation system in accordancewith an exemplary embodiment.

FIG. 3 illustrates a system diagram for implementing a technicalresource capacity distribution/allocation system in accordance with anexemplary embodiment.

FIG. 4 illustrates a system diagram of a technical resource capacitydistribution/allocation system in accordance with an exemplaryembodiment.

FIG. 5 is a process flow illustrating a feed request for performingtechnical resource capacity distribution/allocation in accordance withan exemplary embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a process flow illustrating a feed request not eligible forreporting in accordance with an exemplary embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a process flow illustrating a feed request already existing ina feed request scheduler in accordance with an exemplary embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a process flow illustrating a feed request for a deal in apending state in accordance with an exemplary embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a process flow illustrating a feed response in accordance withan exemplary embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a process flow illustrating an operating system kernelpersistent feed response in accordance with an exemplary embodiment.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

Through one or more of its various aspects, embodiments and/or specificfeatures or sub-components of the present disclosure, are intended tobring out one or more of the advantages as specifically described aboveand noted below.

The examples may also be embodied as one or more non-transitory computerreadable media having instructions stored thereon for one or moreaspects of the present technology as described and illustrated by way ofthe examples herein. The instructions in some examples includeexecutable code that, when executed by one or more processors, cause theprocessors to carry out steps necessary to implement the methods of theexamples of this technology that are described and illustrated herein.

As is traditional in the field of the present disclosure, exampleembodiments are described, and illustrated in the drawings, in terms offunctional blocks, units and/or modules. Those skilled in the art willappreciate that these blocks, units and/or modules are physicallyimplemented by electronic (or optical) circuits such as logic circuits,discrete components, microprocessors, hard-wired circuits, memoryelements, wiring connections, and the like, which may be formed usingsemiconductor-based fabrication techniques or other manufacturingtechnologies. In the case of the blocks, units and/or modules beingimplemented by microprocessors or similar, they may be programmed usingsoftware (e.g., microcode) to perform various functions discussed hereinand may optionally be driven by firmware and/or software. Alternatively,each block, unit and/or module may be implemented by dedicated hardware,or as a combination of dedicated hardware to perform some functions anda processor (e.g., one or more programmed microprocessors and associatedcircuitry) to perform other functions. Also, each block, unit and/ormodule of the example embodiments may be physically separated into twoor more interacting and discrete blocks, units and/or modules withoutdeparting from the scope of the inventive concepts. Further, the blocks,units and/or modules of the example embodiments may be physicallycombined into more complex blocks, units and/or modules withoutdeparting from the scope of the present disclosure.

FIG. 1 illustrates a computer system for implementing a technicalresource capacity distribution/allocation (TRCDA) system in accordancewith an exemplary embodiment.

The system 100 is generally shown and may include a computer system 102,which is generally indicated. The computer system 102 may include a setof instructions that can be executed to cause the computer system 102 toperform any one or more of the methods or computer-based functionsdisclosed herein, either alone or in combination with the otherdescribed devices. The computer system 102 may operate as a standalonedevice or may be connected to other systems or peripheral devices. Forexample, the computer system 102 may include, or be included within, anyone or more computers, servers, systems, communication networks or cloudenvironment. Even further, the instructions may be operative in suchcloud-based computing environment.

In a networked deployment, the computer system 102 may operate in thecapacity of a server or as a client user computer in a server-clientuser network environment, a client user computer in a cloud computingenvironment, or as a peer computer system in a peer-to-peer (ordistributed) network environment. The computer system 102, or portionsthereof, may be implemented as, or incorporated into, various devices,such as a personal computer, a tablet computer, a set-top box, apersonal digital assistant, a mobile device, a palmtop computer, alaptop computer, a desktop computer, a communications device, a wirelesssmart phone, a personal trusted device, a wearable device, a globalpositioning satellite (GPS) device, a web appliance, or any othermachine capable of executing a set of instructions (sequential orotherwise) that specify actions to be taken by that machine. Further,while a single computer system 102 is illustrated, additionalembodiments may include any collection of systems or sub-systems thatindividually or jointly execute instructions or perform functions. Theterm system shall be taken throughout the present disclosure to includeany collection of systems or sub-systems that individually or jointlyexecute a set, or multiple sets, of instructions to perform one or morecomputer functions.

As illustrated in FIG. 1 , the computer system 102 may include at leastone processor 104. The processor 104 is tangible and non-transitory. Asused herein, the term “non-transitory” is to be interpreted not as aneternal characteristic of a state, but as a characteristic of a statethat will last for a period of time. The term “non-transitory”specifically disavows fleeting characteristics such as characteristicsof a particular carrier wave or signal or other forms that exist onlytransitorily in any place at any time. The processor 104 is an articleof manufacture and/or a machine component. The processor 104 isconfigured to execute software instructions in order to performfunctions as described in the various embodiments herein. The processor104 may be a general-purpose processor or may be part of an applicationspecific integrated circuit (ASIC). The processor 104 may also be amicroprocessor, a microcomputer, a processor chip, a controller, amicrocontroller, a digital signal processor (DSP), a state machine, or aprogrammable logic device. The processor 104 may also be a logicalcircuit, including a programmable gate array (PGA) such as a fieldprogrammable gate array (FPGA), or another type of circuit that includesdiscrete gate and/or transistor logic. The processor 104 may be acentral processing unit (CPU), a graphics processing unit (GPU), orboth. Additionally, any processor described herein may include multipleprocessors, parallel processors, or both. Multiple processors may beincluded in, or coupled to, a single device or multiple devices.

The computer system 102 may also include a computer memory 106. Thecomputer memory 106 may include a static memory, a dynamic memory, orboth in communication. Memories described herein are tangible storagemediums that can store data and executable instructions, and arenon-transitory during the time instructions are stored therein. Again,as used herein, the term “non-transitory” is to be interpreted not as aneternal characteristic of a state, but as a characteristic of a statethat will last for a period of time. The term “non-transitory”specifically disavows fleeting characteristics such as characteristicsof a particular carrier wave or signal or other forms that exist onlytransitorily in any place at any time. The memories are an article ofmanufacture and/or machine component. Memories described herein arecomputer-readable mediums from which data and executable instructionscan be read by a computer. Memories as described herein may be randomaccess memory (RAM), read only memory (ROM), flash memory, electricallyprogrammable read only memory (EPROM), electrically erasableprogrammable read-only memory (EEPROM), registers, a hard disk, a cache,a removable disk, tape, compact disk read only memory (CD-ROM), digitalversatile disk (DVD), floppy disk, blu-ray disk, or any other form ofstorage medium known in the art. Memories may be volatile ornon-volatile, secure and/or encrypted, unsecure and/or unencrypted. Ofcourse, the computer memory 106 may comprise any combination of memoriesor a single storage.

The computer system 102 may further include a display 108, such as aliquid crystal display (LCD), an organic light emitting diode (OLED), aflat panel display, a solid-state display, a cathode ray tube (CRT), aplasma display, or any other known display.

The computer system 102 may also include at least one input device 110,such as a keyboard, a touch-sensitive input screen or pad, a speechinput, a mouse, a remote control device having a wireless keypad, amicrophone coupled to a speech recognition engine, a camera such as avideo camera or still camera, a cursor control device, a globalpositioning system (GPS) device, an altimeter, a gyroscope, anaccelerometer, a proximity sensor, or any combination thereof. Thoseskilled in the art appreciate that various embodiments of the computersystem 102 may include multiple input devices 110. Moreover, thoseskilled in the art further appreciate that the above-listed, exemplaryinput devices 110 are not meant to be exhaustive and that the computersystem 102 may include any additional, or alternative, input devices110.

The computer system 102 may also include a medium reader 112 which isconfigured to read any one or more sets of instructions, e.g., software,from any of the memories described herein. The instructions, whenexecuted by a processor, can be used to perform one or more of themethods and processes as described herein. In a particular embodiment,the instructions may reside completely, or at least partially, withinthe memory 106, the medium reader 112, and/or the processor 110 duringexecution by the computer system 102.

Furthermore, the computer system 102 may include any additional devices,components, parts, peripherals, hardware, software or any combinationthereof which are commonly known and understood as being included withor within a computer system, such as, but not limited to, a networkinterface 114 and an output device 116. The network interface 114 mayinclude, without limitation, a communication circuit, a transmitter or areceiver. The output device 116 may be, but is not limited to, aspeaker, an audio out, a video out, a remote control output, a printer,or any combination thereof.

Each of the components of the computer system 102 may be interconnectedand communicate via a bus 118 or other communication link. As shown inFIG. 1 , the components may each be interconnected and communicate viaan internal bus. However, those skilled in the art appreciate that anyof the components may also be connected via an expansion bus. Moreover,the bus 118 may enable communication via any standard or otherspecification commonly known and understood such as, but not limited to,peripheral component interconnect, peripheral component interconnectexpress, parallel advanced technology attachment, serial advancedtechnology attachment, etc.

The computer system 102 may be in communication with one or moreadditional computer devices 120 via a network 122. The network 122 maybe, but is not limited to, a local area network, a wide area network,the Internet, a telephony network, a short-range network, or any othernetwork commonly known and understood in the art. The short-rangenetwork may include, for example, Bluetooth, Zigbee, infrared, nearfield communication, ultraband, or any combination thereof. Thoseskilled in the art appreciate that additional networks 122 which areknown and understood may additionally or alternatively be used and thatthe exemplary networks 122 are not limiting or exhaustive. Also, whilethe network 122 is shown in FIG. 1 as a wireless network, those skilledin the art appreciate that the network 122 may also be a wired network.

The additional computer device 120 is shown in FIG. 1 as a personalcomputer. However, those skilled in the art appreciate that, inalternative embodiments of the present application, the computer device120 may be a laptop computer, a tablet PC, a personal digital assistant,a mobile device, a palmtop computer, a desktop computer, acommunications device, a wireless telephone, a personal trusted device,a web appliance, a server, or any other device that is capable ofexecuting a set of instructions, sequential or otherwise, that specifyactions to be taken by that device. Of course, those skilled in the artappreciate that the above-listed devices are merely exemplary devicesand that the device 120 may be any additional device or apparatuscommonly known and understood in the art without departing from thescope of the present application. For example, the computer device 120may be the same or similar to the computer system 102. Furthermore,those skilled in the art similarly understand that the device may be anycombination of devices and apparatuses.

Of course, those skilled in the art appreciate that the above-listedcomponents of the computer system 102 are merely meant to be exemplaryand are not intended to be exhaustive and/or inclusive. Furthermore, theexamples of the components listed above are also meant to be exemplaryand similarly are not meant to be exhaustive and/or inclusive.

In accordance with various embodiments of the present disclosure, themethods described herein may be implemented using a hardware computersystem that executes software programs. Further, in an exemplary,non-limited embodiment, implementations can include distributedprocessing, component/object distributed processing, and an operationmode having parallel processing capabilities. Virtual computer systemprocessing can be constructed to implement one or more of the methods orfunctionality as described herein, and a processor described herein maybe used to support a virtual processing environment.

FIG. 2 illustrates an exemplary diagram of a network environment with atechnical resource capacity distribution/allocation system in accordancewith an exemplary embodiment.

A technical resource capacity distribution/allocation (TRCDA) system 202may be the same or similar to the computer system 102 as described withrespect to FIG. 1 .

The TRCDA system 202 may store one or more applications that can includeexecutable instructions that, when executed by the TRCDA system 202,cause the TRCDA system 202 to perform actions, such as to execute,transmit, receive, or otherwise process network messages, for example,and to perform other actions described and illustrated below withreference to the figures. The application(s) may be implemented asmodules or components of other applications. Further, the application(s)can be implemented as operating system extensions, modules, plugins, orthe like.

Even further, the application(s) may be operative in a cloud-basedcomputing environment or other networking environments. Theapplication(s) may be executed within or as virtual machine(s) orvirtual server(s) that may be managed in a cloud-based computingenvironment. Also, the application(s), and even the TRCDA system 202itself, may be located in virtual server(s) running in a cloud-basedcomputing environment rather than being tied to one or more specificphysical network computing devices or resources. Also, theapplication(s) may be running in one or more virtual machines (VMs)executing on the TRCDA system 202. Additionally, in one or moreembodiments of this technology, virtual machine(s) running on the TRCDAsystem 202 may be managed or supervised by a hypervisor.

In the network environment 200 of FIG. 2 , the TRCDA system 202 iscoupled to a plurality of server devices 204(1)-204(n) that hosts aplurality of databases 206(1)-206(n), and also to a plurality of clientdevices 208(1)-208(n) via communication network(s) 210. A communicationinterface of the TRCDA system 202, such as the network interface 114 ofthe computer system 102 of FIG. 1 , operatively couples and communicatesbetween the TRCDA system 202, the server devices 204(1)-204(n), and/orthe client devices 208(1)-208(n), which are all coupled together by thecommunication network(s) 210, although other types and/or numbers ofcommunication networks or systems with other types and/or numbers ofconnections and/or configurations to other devices and/or elements mayalso be used.

The communication network(s) 210 may be the same or similar to thenetwork 122 as described with respect to FIG. 1 , although the TRCDAsystem 202, the server devices 204(1)-204(n), and/or the client devices208(1)-208(n) may be coupled together via other topologies.Additionally, the network environment 200 may include other networkdevices such as one or more routers and/or switches, for example, whichare well known in the art and thus will not be described herein.

By way of example only, the communication network(s) 210 may includelocal area network(s) (LAN(s)) or wide area network(s) (WAN(s)), and canuse TCP/IP over Ethernet and industry-standard protocols, although othertypes and/or numbers of protocols and/or communication networks may beused. The communication network(s) 210 in this example may employ anysuitable interface mechanisms and network communication technologiesincluding, for example, teletraffic in any suitable form (e.g., voice,modem, and the like), Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTNs),Ethernet-based Packet Data Networks (PDNs), combinations thereof, andthe like.

The TRCDA system 202 may be a standalone device or integrated with oneor more other devices or apparatuses, such as one or more of the serverdevices 204(1)-204(n), for example. In one particular example, the TRCDAsystem 202 may be hosted by one of the server devices 204(1)-204(n), andother arrangements are also possible. Moreover, one or more of thedevices of the TRCDA system 202 may be in the same or a differentcommunication network including one or more public, private, or cloudnetworks, for example.

The plurality of server devices 204(1)-204(n) may be the same or similarto the computer system 102 or the computer device 120 as described withrespect to FIG. 1 , including any features or combination of featuresdescribed with respect thereto. For example, any of the server devices204(1)-204(n) may include, among other features, one or more processors,a memory, and a communication interface, which are coupled together by abus or other communication link, although other numbers and/or types ofnetwork devices may be used. The server devices 204(1)-204(n) in thisexample may process requests received from the TRCDA system 202 via thecommunication network(s) 210 according to the HTTP-based protocol, forexample, although other protocols may also be used. According to afurther aspect of the present disclosure, in which the user interfacemay be a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) web interface, but thedisclosure is not limited thereto.

The server devices 204(1)-204(n) may be hardware or software or mayrepresent a system with multiple servers in a pool, which may includeinternal or external networks. The server devices 204(1)-204(n) hoststhe databases 206(1)-206(n) that are configured to store metadata sets,data quality rules, and newly generated data.

Although the server devices 204(1)-204(n) are illustrated as singledevices, one or more actions of each of the server devices 204(1)-204(n)may be distributed across one or more distinct network computing devicesthat together comprise one or more of the server devices 204(1)-204(n).Moreover, the server devices 204(1)-204(n) are not limited to aparticular configuration. Thus, the server devices 204(1)-204(n) maycontain a plurality of network computing devices that operate using amaster/slave approach, whereby one of the network computing devices ofthe server devices 204(1)-204(n) operates to manage and/or otherwisecoordinate operations of the other network computing devices.

The server devices 204(1)-204(n) may operate as a plurality of networkcomputing devices within a cluster architecture, a peer-to peerarchitecture, virtual machines, or within a cloud architecture, forexample. Thus, the technology disclosed herein is not to be construed asbeing limited to a single environment and other configurations andarchitectures are also envisaged.

The plurality of client devices 208(1)-208(n) may also be the same orsimilar to the computer system 102 or the computer device 120 asdescribed with respect to FIG. 1 , including any features or combinationof features described with respect thereto. Client device in thiscontext refers to any computing device that interfaces to communicationsnetwork(s) 210 to obtain resources from one or more server devices204(1)-204(n) or other client devices 208(1)-208(n).

According to exemplary embodiments, the client devices 208(1)-208(n) inthis example may include any type of computing device that canfacilitate the implementation of the TRCDA system 202 that mayefficiently provide a platform for implementing a cloud native TRCDAmodule, but the disclosure is not limited thereto.

The client devices 208(1)-208(n) may run interface applications, such asstandard web browsers or standalone client applications, which mayprovide an interface to communicate with the TRCDA system 202 via thecommunication network(s) 210 in order to communicate user requests. Theclient devices 208(1)-208(n) may further include, among other features,a display device, such as a display screen or touchscreen, and/or aninput device, such as a keyboard, for example.

Although the exemplary network environment 200 with the TRCDA system202, the server devices 204(1)-204(n), the client devices 208(1)-208(n),and the communication network(s) 210 are described and illustratedherein, other types and/or numbers of systems, devices, components,and/or elements in other topologies may be used. It is to be understoodthat the systems of the examples described herein are for exemplarypurposes, as many variations of the specific hardware and software usedto implement the examples are possible, as will be appreciated by thoseskilled in the relevant art(s).

One or more of the devices depicted in the network environment 200, suchas the TRCDA system 202, the server devices 204(1)-204(n), or the clientdevices 208(1)-208(n), for example, may be configured to operate asvirtual instances on the same physical machine. For example, one or moreof the TRCDA system 202, the server devices 204(1)-204(n), or the clientdevices 208(1)-208(n) may operate on the same physical device ratherthan as separate devices communicating through communication network(s)210. Additionally, there may be more or fewer TRCDA systems 202, serverdevices 204(1)-204(n), or client devices 208(1)-208(n) than illustratedin FIG. 2 . According to exemplary embodiments, the TRCDA system 202 maybe configured to send code at run-time to remote server devices204(1)-204(n), but the disclosure is not limited thereto.

In addition, two or more computing systems or devices may be substitutedfor any one of the systems or devices in any example. Accordingly,principles and advantages of distributed processing, such as redundancyand replication also may be implemented, as desired, to increase therobustness and performance of the devices and systems of the examples.The examples may also be implemented on computer system(s) that extendacross any suitable network using any suitable interface mechanisms andtraffic technologies, including by way of example only teletraffic inany suitable form (e.g., voice and modem), wireless traffic networks,cellular traffic networks, Packet Data Networks (PDNs), the Internet,intranets, and combinations thereof.

FIG. 3 illustrates a system diagram for implementing a technicalresource capacity distribution/allocation system in accordance with anexemplary embodiment.

As illustrated in FIG. 3 , the system 300 may include a TRCDA system 302within which a group of API modules 306 is embedded, a server 304, adatabase(s) 312, a plurality of client devices 308(1) . . . 308(n), anda communication network 310.

According to exemplary embodiments, the TRCDA system 302 including theAPI modules 306 may be connected to the server 304, and the database(s)312 via the communication network 310. Although there is only onedatabase has been illustrated, the disclosure is not limited thereto.Any number of databases may be utilized. The TRCDA System 302 may alsobe connected to the plurality of client devices 308(1) . . . 308(n) viathe communication network 310, but the disclosure is not limitedthereto.

According to exemplary embodiment, the TRCDA system 302 is described andshown in FIG. 3 as including the API modules 306, although it mayinclude other rules, policies, modules, databases, or applications, forexample. According to exemplary embodiments, the database(s) 312 may beembedded within the TRCDA system 302. According to exemplaryembodiments, the database(s) 312 may be configured to storeconfiguration details data corresponding to a desired data to be fetchedfrom one or more data sources, user information data etc., but thedisclosure is not limited thereto.

According to exemplary embodiments, the API modules 306 may beconfigured to receive real-time feed of data or data at predeterminedintervals from the plurality of client devices 308(1) . . . 308(n) viathe communication network 310.

The API modules 306 may be configured to implement a user interface (UI)platform that is configured to enable TRCDA as a service for a desireddata processing scheme. The UI platform may include an input interfacelayer and an output interface layer. The input interface layer mayrequest preset input fields to be provided by a user in accordance witha selection of an automation template. The UI platform may receive userinput, via the input interface layer, of configuration details datacorresponding to a desired data to be fetched from one or more datasources. The user may specify, for example, data sources, parameters,destinations, rules, and the like. The UI platform may further fetch thedesired data from said one or more data sources based on theconfiguration details data to be utilized for the desired dataprocessing scheme, automatically implement a transformation algorithm onthe desired data corresponding to the configuration details data and thedesired data processing scheme to output a transformed data in apredefined format, and transmit, via the output interface layer, thetransformed data to downstream applications or systems.

The plurality of client devices 308(1) . . . 308(n) are illustrated asbeing in communication with the TRCDA system 302. In this regard, theplurality of client devices 308(1) . . . 308(n) may be “clients” of theTRCDA system 302 and are described herein as such. Nevertheless, it isto be known and understood that the plurality of client devices 308(1) .. . 308(n) need not necessarily be “clients” of the TRCDA system 302, orany entity described in association therewith herein. Any additional oralternative relationship may exist between either or both of theplurality of client devices 308(1) . . . 308(n) and the TRCDA system302, or no relationship may exist.

The first client device 308(1) may be, for example, a smart phone. Ofcourse, the first client device 308(1) may be any additional devicedescribed herein. The second client device 308(n) may be, for example, apersonal computer (PC). Of course, the second client device 308(n) mayalso be any additional device described herein. According to exemplaryembodiments, the server 304 may be the same or equivalent to the serverdevice 204 as illustrated in FIG. 2 .

The process may be executed via the communication network 310, which maycomprise plural networks as described above. For example, in anexemplary embodiment, one or more of the plurality of client devices308(1) . . . 308(n) may communicate with the TRCDA system 302 viabroadband or cellular communication. Of course, these embodiments aremerely exemplary and are not limiting or exhaustive.

The computing device 301 may be the same or similar to any one of theclient devices 208(1)-208(n) as described with respect to FIG. 2 ,including any features or combination of features described with respectthereto. The TRCDA system 302 may be the same or similar to the TRCDAsystem 202 as described with respect to FIG. 2 , including any featuresor combination of features described with respect thereto.

FIG. 4 illustrates a system diagram of a technical resource capacitydistribution/allocation system in accordance with an exemplaryembodiment.

A feed request database (FR DB) 410 may be a centralized database thatreceives various feed requests from multiple lines of businesses (LOBs)for storage. According to exemplary aspects, each line of business mayprovide a feed request with certain attributes, such as priority levelor technical requirements, for processing. Upon receiving the feedrequests, a technical resource capacity distribution/allocation system(TRCDA) 420 may be alerted of the newly received or stored feed request.According to aspects, the alert may be provided instantaneously inreal-time, at predetermined intervals, or upon reaching a predeterminedcondition (e.g., feed request of a certain event type) or threshold.However, aspects of the present disclosure are not limited thereto, suchthat alerts may be provided upon reaching a different criteria, or feedrequests may be sent without providing any advance alert.

Upon receiving an alert, the TRCDA 420 may acquire or obtain the feedrequest received and stored at the feed request database 410 forprocessing. According to exemplary aspects, feed request retrieved fromthe feed request database 410 from different lines of business mayindicate different prioritization of the feed requests. For example,certain feed requests may specify for non-priority processing, which maybe held in queue and then released later for processing based on dataprocessing load, or for immediate processing. According to exemplaryaspects, an amount of delay prior to processing may be determined basedon a priority level specified for the feed request and/or availabilityof technical resources for performing processing.

For priority or immediate processing, the feed request may be assignedto be processed by an earlier available computing device or resource(e.g., computer, server, computing box, a cloud networked computingresource, and etc.) having technical capacity among a network ofcomputing devices, regardless of whether the earlier available computingdevice or resource is located locally or not. More specifically,although certain lines of businesses may typically be assigned to aparticular computing devices for processing, feed requests may beallocated or distributed, in real time and without predeterminedassignments, to different computing devices that may be located remotelyfor processing to ensure timely processing. Further, certain feedrequests may specify for dedicated processing. For example, heaviertasks, for which processing may be time/CPU/memory intensive, may bedistributed to an idle or less utilized computing device (e.g.,computing devices that may be located in Asia for processing of feedrequests generating from North America) for dedicated processing. Inaddition to the above, based on computing device specifications, networkspeed, latency, geography, time, days, or other factors, one or moredevices within a network of computing devices may be leveraged asdedicated computing devices for processing of more resource intensivetasks. Such designations may be modified based on computing load acrossthe network of computing devices based on received data volume.

According to exemplary aspects, the TRCDA 420 may monitor resourceutilization across the network of computing devices for an organization.In an example, the network of computing devices may include computingdevices of various specifications located across the globe. Bymonitoring and managing of computing resources (e.g., CPU, memory, andthe like), additional increase in data volume may be timely handled bydistribution of computing load to computing devices that may beavailable for processing. For example, due to time difference betweenvarious geographies, computing devices located in different locations(e.g., counties/cities, states, countries, or continents) may havedifferent utilization rates throughout the day. By redistributing ofcomputing load or reallocating of computing resources in real-time,technical resources of less utilized computing devices may be moreefficiently utilized for processing of sudden increase in data or feedrequests, without the need for adding additional computing hardware.

According to exemplary aspects, the TRCDA 420 may be configured toprovide a multiprocessing environment to allow parallel processing.Further, processing may be configured on one or more attributes,including, without limitation, a location to run (e.g., local, otherserver boxes, or cloud network), priority level (e.g., dedicated processmay be set aside for certain task priorities), memory and time limit(e.g., to avoid potential overload or timeout), recycle policy (e.g., apolicy indicating whether a process meeting a resource limit should berecycled or not), process dynamic generation (e.g., option to define howmany process are required and generate process automatically based on abacklog) and the like.

The TRCDA 420, in receipt of the feed requests, performs severalprocesses to prioritize, divert and/or identify events for targeteddistribution or allocation of technical resources for improvedprocessing capability of real time feeds. In an example, feed requestsstemming from a same deal/project/source file may be allocated to thesame computing device for more efficient processing as data related tothe deal/project/source file may be read once, as opposed to everyiteration the feed request is processed for conservation of memory andCPU resources. Further, feed requests corresponding to a certain eventtype may be grouped for processing by a same computing device or a groupof same computing devices.

The processes performed by the TRCDA 420 may include, withoutlimitation, at least operations for processing feed request 421,evaluating for eligibility 422, generating of downstream trades ortransactions (DSTs) 423, saving of DSTs 424, generating of messages 425,and saving of messages 426, and sending of the message 427. The sentmessage may be placed in a message queue 428 according to a certainpriority based on attributes specified in the sent message. According toexemplary aspects, the messages may be generated in a protocol specifiedin the feed request or as specified a receiving device/process. Further,in an example, a priority level for a feed request may be set by a useror automatically based on an event type of the feed request. Further tothe above, according to exemplary aspects, feed requests for processingmay be filtered for processing according to an event type.

According to exemplary aspects, the processing of feed request 421 mayinclude reading, parsing and/or additional operations for processing ofthe acquired feed request for analysis. The processed feed request mayindicate, without limitation, attributes indicating processing priority,technical resource requirements, and the like.

In operation 422, the processed feed request is analyzed to determineeligibility for processing of downstream trades or transactions. Forexample, the attributes of the feed request may be analyzed in view ofother feed requests for determining whether an event of the feed requestis eligible for processing or not. If the event of the feed request isdetermined not to be eligible for processing of downstream trades ortransactions, an empty downstream trade or transaction may be generatedand the feed request may be removed from the feed request database 410.

On the other hand, if the event of the feed request is determined to beeligible for processing of downstream trades or transactions, then adownstream trade or transaction may be generated for the feed request inoperation 423. Further, according to exemplary aspects, TRCDA 420 maycollect data processing per task and/or processing per component toanalyze processing behavior for fine tuning as required. Between datacollections, various information may be determined, such as a number ofprocesses running per minute, a number of tasks processed per process,time percentage that process was running for an assigned task, time toprocess a task, a number of tasks in backlog, a number of tasks of sametype in backlog, and the like.

In operation 424, the generated downstream trade or transaction is thensaved in the feed request database 410.

In operation 425, a message is generated in a protocol requested by therespective line of business. In operation 426, the generated message isthen saved in the feed request database 410. Then the generateddownstream trade or transaction and the message is sent to a messagequeue in operation 427. The message queue 428

FIG. 5 is a process flow illustrating a feed request for performingtechnical resource capacity distribution/allocation in accordance withan exemplary embodiment.

In operation 501, a feed request database (FR DB) informs a feed request(FR) stream of a feed request received and stored at the feed requestdatabase. According to exemplary aspects, inform mechanism of the feedrequest database reacts immediately upon receiving a new feed request,to push the new feed request to a scheduler for processing. As a result,timing of requests waiting in the feed request database may be improvedto reduce delay in waiting to provide real-time processing. However,aspects of the present disclosure are not limited thereto, such thatadditional checks may be performed at predetermined intervals or duringa start of a process to check for feed requests in queue that have notyet been sent for processing.

In operation 502, the feed request stream in response to thenotification received, performs an operation to obtain or acquired therespective feed request. In an example, the feed request may be obtainedusing a get or similar function.

In operation 503, the feed request stream receives or obtains the feedrequest for processing. In operation 504, the feed request stream readsthe feed request and may perform one or more operations to process thefeed request. For example, the feed request stream may read and parsethe obtained feed request for analysis. Upon reading and processing ofthe feed request, the feed request is sent to the message feeder.

The message feeder may perform analysis on one or more attributes of theprocessed feed request, and schedule the feed request with a schedulerfor processing according to the one or more attributes in operation 505.According to exemplary aspects, the feed request may be scheduled forprocessing based on one or more of a location of a computing device forprocessing the feed request, priority level of the feed request, memorylimit, time limit, a recycle policy, process dynamic generation policyand the like. For example, if the priority level of the feed requestindicates a high level for immediate processing, the feed request may beassigned to the earliest available computing device for processing.Further, among the available computing devices, the closest one may beselected for reduced network latency. A further distanced computingdevice may be selected for feed requests of lower priority levels.Moreover, the feed request may be assigned based onmemory/time/processing requirements of the feed request. However,aspects of the present disclosure are not limited thereto, such thatdistributions or allocations of feed requests to computing deviceslocated at various geographies may be based on distribution of computingload for improved efficiencies of the network of computing devices of anorganization as a whole, and reliability of processing of increasedvolume of data or feed requests.

By distributing computing workloads across various computing devices ofan organization, without being limited to a specific locale orgeography, resources of less utilized computing devices may be leveragefor handling additional data volume without overloading a system at acertain locale. In addition, by performing more sophisticated schedulingbased on priorities of the feed requests, various lines of business maybe able to have all of the necessary feed requests processed accordingto service level agreements while saving less critical feed requests foroff-peak processing. Accordingly, by performing real-time distributionor assignments of feed request based on resource availability/capabilityof a network of computers located at various geographiclocations/countries/continents (e.g., Brazil, England, European Union,Japan, Mexico, Singapore, United States of America), and by modifyingprocessing of feed requests according to specified priority levels,increase in data volume may be more efficiently handled withoutphysically increasing a number of computing devices at a more heavilyprocessing locale.

Further to the above, real-time allocations or distribution may bespecified by one or more artificial intelligence (AI) or machinelearning (ML) algorithms. According to exemplary aspects, one or more AIor ML algorithms may be utilized for making adjustments in resourceallocations or distribution of feed request processing based thecollected data. In an example, AI or ML algorithms may be executed toperform data pattern detection, and to provide an output based on thedata pattern detection. More specifically, an output may be providedbased on a historical pattern of data, such that with more data or morerecent data, more accurate outputs may be provided. Accordingly, the MLor AI models may be constantly updated after a predetermined number ofruns or iterations. According to exemplary aspects, machine learning mayrefer to computer algorithms that may improve automatically through useof data. Machine learning algorithm may build an initial model based onsample or training data, which may be iteratively improved upon asadditional data are acquired.

More specifically, machine learning/artificial intelligence and patternrecognition may include supervised learning algorithms such as, forexample, k-medoids analysis, regression analysis, decision treeanalysis, random forest analysis, k-nearest neighbors analysis, logisticregression analysis, 5-fold cross-validation analysis, balanced classweight analysis, and the like. In another exemplary embodiment, machinelearning analytical techniques may include unsupervised learningalgorithms such as, for example, Apriori analysis, K-means clusteringanalysis, etc. In another exemplary embodiment, machine learninganalytical techniques may include reinforcement learning algorithms suchas, for example, Markov Decision Process analysis, and the like.

In another exemplary embodiment, the ML or AI model may be based on amachine learning algorithm. The machine learning algorithm may includeat least one from among a process and a set of rules to be followed by acomputer in calculations and other problem-solving operations such as,for example, a linear regression algorithm, a logistic regressionalgorithm, a decision tree algorithm, and/or a Naive Bayes algorithm.

In another exemplary embodiment, the ML or AI model may include trainingmodels such as, for example, a machine learning model which is generatedto be further trained on additional data. Once the training model hasbeen sufficiently trained, the training model may be deployed ontovarious connected systems to be utilized. In another exemplaryembodiment, the training model may be sufficiently trained when modelassessment methods such as, for example, a holdout method, aK-fold-cross-validation method, and a bootstrap method determine that atleast one of the training model's least squares error rate, truepositive rate, true negative rate, false positive rate, and falsenegative rates are within predetermined ranges.

In another exemplary embodiment, the training model may be operable,i.e., actively utilized by an organization, while continuing to betrained using new data. In another exemplary embodiment, the ML or AImodels may be generated using at least one from among an artificialneural network technique, a decision tree technique, a support vectormachines technique, a Bayesian network technique, and a geneticalgorithms technique.

In operation 506, the scheduler may schedule feed requests forprocessing by grouping by task collection. In addition to determiningscheduling based on priority levels, memory/time limits, considerationof locale and the like, the scheduler may group feed requests (e.g.,according to event types, deals/source file/project or etc.) forprocessing by performing grouping by task collection.

In an example, the scheduler may be a reactive scheduler that allows toorder and filter feed requests based on time of arrival and specifiedpriority levels. Further, the feed requests may be ordered by adeal/transaction name and based on a first input and first output basis.More specifically, if events or tasks are generated for the samedeal/transaction, those events may be grouped for processing by the sameprocess and one after the other, before starting a new deal-eventprocessing. Such approach may ensure reduced or minimal and memory usagesince the required data for the deal is only read during the firstevent, making the processing of subsequent events much quicker andefficient.

Once the feed requests or events have been grouped for processing, thefeed request may be assigned to a worker or a computing device or acloud network among a network of computing devices or cloud networks ofan organization in operation 507. The computing device or the cloudnetwork may be selected by the scheduler based on various attributes ofthe feed request as well as technical resource availability forprocessing the feed request. As a default, a computing device that islocal to the feed request may be selected if sufficient resourceavailability is present. If not, a more remotely located computingdevice may be assigned for processing. Further, by performing processingon a remotely located computing device or remote processing, issues in asingle process may be quickly identified and terminated, and be able tobe recycled on a new process without restarting the whole mechanism. Inan examples, issues may include unexpected exception, memory issues andthe like.

In operation 508, the feed request is processed by the assigned workeror computing device by feeding corresponding data. In an example,processing of the feed request may be performed by a local computingdevice (local processing) or a remote computing device (remoteprocessing). By utilizing reactive remote processing, the TRCDA systemmay become more scalable to allow for quick updates and to support moreworkers on a same computing device or distributed computing devices.Such scalability feature may render legacy implementation of differentlocations unnecessary to have many instances for feed, as scheduler mayact as a director and assign tasks to various workers despite of where acomputing device may be located. Accordingly, the scheduler may be ableto process a high number of requests with high number of processes thatmay be executed in parallel, locally or remotely.

In operation 509, a downstream trade or transaction (DST) is generatedfor the processed feed request. The DST may indicate information of timeand memory used/spent on each phase of a circuit per process and perfeeder. Such information may allow for further analysis and performanceimprovements. In operation 510, the worker or the assigned computingdevices sends the generated DST to the feed request database to bestored thereon.

In operation 511, the worker or the assigned computing device thengenerates a message according to a protocol specified by the feedrequest. In operation 512, the worker or the assigned computing devicesends the generated message to the feed request database to be storedthereon. In operation 513, the worker or the assigned computing devicereturns the DST and the message to the message feeder. In operation 514,the message feeder in response to receiving the DST and the message,sends the message to a gateway server. Lastly, in operation 515, thegateway server sends the message to the message queue (MQ).

FIG. 6 is a process flow illustrating a feed request not eligible forreporting in accordance with an exemplary embodiment.

In FIG. 6 , operations 601, operation 602, operation 603, operation 604,operation 605, operation 606, and operation 607 may be performed similarto operation 501, operation 502, operation 503, operation 504, operation505, operation 506, and operation 507 of FIG. 5 , respectively.

However, once the feed request is assigned to a worker or computingdevice, the worker or computing device may determine that the feedrequest or corresponding event is not eligible for generating a DST inoperation 608. In such a case, the worker or computing device may thenreturn an empty DST and message to the message feeder in operation 609.In operation 610, the message feeder process the empty DST and message,and notifies the feed request stream. In operation 611, the feed requeststream removes the respective feed request that was not processed by theassigned worker or computing device from the feed request database.

FIG. 7 is a process flow illustrating a feed request already existing ina feed request scheduler in accordance with an exemplary embodiment.

In FIG. 7 , operations 701, operation 702, operation 703, operation 704,operation 705, and operation 706 may be performed similar to operation501, operation 502, operation 503, operation 504, operation 505, andoperation 506 of FIG. 5 , respectively.

Operation 707, operation 708 and operation 709 may be performed similarto operation 701, operation 702, and operation 703, except that theoperation 708 is for reading of feed request FR2_D1 and operation 704 isfor reading feed request FR1_D1.

The scheduler, when performing operation 710 to group events or tasksbased on whether the event corresponding to the feed request stems froma same deal or transaction, may fail based on a presence of a feedrequest that has yet to be assigned to be processed by the scheduler.

In operation 711, the scheduler discards the feed request FR2_D1 andnotifies the message feeder. The message feeder processes the discardingof the feed request FR2_D1 and notifies the feed request stream inoperation 712. In operation 713, the feed request stream removes thefeed request FR2_D1 from the feed request database.

Operation 714, operation 715, operation 716, operation 717, operation718, operation 719, operation 720, operation 721, and operation 722 maybe performed similar to operation 507, operation 508, operation 509,operation 510, operation 511, operation 512, operation 513, operation514, and operation 515 of FIG. 5 , respectively.

In operation 723, the message queue in receipt of the message sends anacknowledgement to the gateway server. In operation 724, the gatewayserver in turns sends an acknowledgement to the message feeder. Inoperation 725, the message feeder notifies the feed request stream ofthe completed processing of the feed request FR1_D1. In operation 726,the feed request stream removes the respective feed request FR1_D1 fromthe feed request database.

FIG. 8 is a process flow illustrating a feed request for a deal in apending state in accordance with an exemplary embodiment.

In FIG. 8 , operations 801, operation 802, operation 803, operation 804,operation 805, and operation 806, operation 807, operation 809,operation 810, operation 811, operation 812, operation 813, operation814 and operation 815 may be performed similar to operation 501,operation 502, operation 503, operation 504, operation 505, operation506, operation 507, operation 509, operation 510, operation 511,operation 512, operation 513, operation 514 and operation 515 of FIG. 5, respectively.

In operation 816, the message queue in receipt of the message sends anacknowledgement to the gateway server. In operation 817, the gatewayserver in turns sends an acknowledgement to the message feeder. Inoperation 818, the message feeder updates a status of a pending dealcorresponding to the processed feed request, and notifies the feedrequest stream of the completed processing of the respective feedrequest in operation 819. In operation 820, the feed request streamremoves the respective feed request from the feed request database.

In operation 821, the feed request database informs a feed requeststream of another feed request received and stored at the feed requestdatabase. In an example, the feed request stream may correspond to thedeal that was updated in operation 818.

Operation 822, operation 823, operation 824, and operation 825 are thenperformed similarly to operation 804, operation 805, operation 806 andoperation 807. In operation 826, the assigned worker or computing devicemay determine that the feed request assigned for processing maycorrespond to the pending deal with an outdated deal status. In thatcase, processing of the respective feed request may fail, and an emptyDST and message may be returned to the message feeder in operation 827.In operation 828, the message feeder process the empty DST and message,and notifies the feed request stream. In operation 829, the feed requeststream removes the respective feed request that was not processed by theassigned worker or computing device from the feed request database.

FIG. 9 is a process flow illustrating a feed response in accordance withan exemplary embodiment.

According to exemplary aspects, certain lines of business may optionallydesire to receive a response on the processing of the feed request thatwere discussed in the previous process flows. In this regard, FIG. 9provides an exemplary flow of providing a feed response.

In operation 901, the message quest reads a message received in itsqueue and notifies the message feeder of the received message. In anexample, the message may indicate successful or unsuccessful processingof a feed request, receipt of DST and message, and corresponding orrelated information.

The message feeder then requests a scheduler to schedule processing ofthe message in operation 902. In operation 903, the scheduler attemptsto group messages stemming from a same deal and assigns processing ofthe message to an available worker or computing device in operation 904.In operation 905, the assigned worker or computing device processes themessage to generate a response indicating an updated status of the feedrequest, and in operation 906, the assigned worker or computing devicesends the updated status information to the feed request database.

In operation 907, the assigned work or computing device performs ashouldWriteFReq( ), and transmits the writeFReq to the feed requestdatabase in operation 908. In operation 909, the assigned worker orcomputing device transmits the processing of the response to the messagefeeder. In operation 910, the message feeder commits to the messagequeue to free up memory.

FIG. 10 is a process flow illustrating an operating system kernelpersistent feed response in accordance with an exemplary embodiment.

In operation 1001, the message queue reads a message received at themessage queue and sends it to a response process for saving onto thefeed request database in operation 1002. In an example, the messagereceived at the message queue may be sent by a gateway server afterprocessing of a feed request by a TRCDA system.

In operation 1003, the response process sends a commit signal to themessage queue for clearing the respective message from its queue. Inoperation 1004, the response process updates a new response and sends itto the message feeder. In operation 1005, the message feeder sends theupdated new response to a scheduler to schedule processing of theupdated new response. In operation 1006, the scheduler groups theupdated new response to a group based on commonality with other messagesfor more efficient processing. In operation 1007, the scheduler assignsprocessing of the updated new response to a worker or a computing devicelocated locally or remotely based on at least one of resource capacityconstraints (e.g., memory, CPU, capacity and etc.), priority level,locale of the computing device, and the like.

In operation 1008, the assigned worker or computing device processes theupdated new response. After processing, the worker or computing devicetransmits the updated status to the feed request database in operation1009. In operation 1010, the assigned worker or computing deviceperforms shouldWriteFReq( )function, and transmits the writeFReq to thefeed request database in operation 1011. In operation 1012, the assignedworker or computing device transmits the processing of the response tothe message feeder. In operation 1013, the message feeder commits to themessage queue to free up memory.

Further, although the invention has been described with reference toseveral exemplary embodiments, it is understood that the words that havebeen used are words of description and illustration, rather than wordsof limitation. Changes may be made within the purview of the appendedclaims, as presently stated and as amended, without departing from thescope and spirit of the present disclosure in its aspects. Although theinvention has been described with reference to particular means,materials and embodiments, the invention is not intended to be limitedto the particulars disclosed; rather the invention extends to allfunctionally equivalent structures, methods, and uses such as are withinthe scope of the appended claims.

For example, while the computer-readable medium may be described as asingle medium, the term “computer-readable medium” includes a singlemedium or multiple media, such as a centralized or distributed database,and/or associated caches and servers that store one or more sets ofinstructions. The term “computer-readable medium” shall also include anymedium that is capable of storing, encoding or carrying a set ofinstructions for execution by a processor or that cause a computersystem to perform any one or more of the embodiments disclosed herein.

The computer-readable medium may comprise a non-transitorycomputer-readable medium or media and/or comprise a transitorycomputer-readable medium or media. In a particular non-limiting,exemplary embodiment, the computer-readable medium can include asolid-state memory such as a memory card or other package that housesone or more non-volatile read-only memories. Further, thecomputer-readable medium can be a random access memory or other volatilere-writable memory. Additionally, the computer-readable medium caninclude a magneto-optical or optical medium, such as a disk or tapes orother storage device to capture carrier wave signals such as a signalcommunicated over a transmission medium. Accordingly, the disclosure isconsidered to include any computer-readable medium or other equivalentsand successor media, in which data or instructions may be stored.

Although the present application describes specific embodiments whichmay be implemented as computer programs or code segments incomputer-readable media, it is to be understood that dedicated hardwareimplementations, such as application specific integrated circuits,programmable logic arrays and other hardware devices, can be constructedto implement one or more of the embodiments described herein.Applications that may include the various embodiments set forth hereinmay broadly include a variety of electronic and computer systems.Accordingly, the present application may encompass software, firmware,and hardware implementations, or combinations thereof. Nothing in thepresent application should be interpreted as being implemented orimplementable solely with software and not hardware.

Although the present specification describes components and functionsthat may be implemented in particular embodiments with reference toparticular standards and protocols, the disclosure is not limited tosuch standards and protocols. Such standards are periodically supersededby faster or more efficient equivalents having essentially the samefunctions. Accordingly, replacement standards and protocols having thesame or similar functions are considered equivalents thereof.

The illustrations of the embodiments described herein are intended toprovide a general understanding of the various embodiments. Theillustrations are not intended to serve as a complete description of allof the elements and features of apparatus and systems that utilize thestructures or methods described herein. Many other embodiments may beapparent to those of skill in the art upon reviewing the disclosure.Other embodiments may be utilized and derived from the disclosure, suchthat structural and logical substitutions and changes may be madewithout departing from the scope of the disclosure. Additionally, theillustrations are merely representational and may not be drawn to scale.Certain proportions within the illustrations may be exaggerated, whileother proportions may be minimized. Accordingly, the disclosure and thefigures are to be regarded as illustrative rather than restrictive.

One or more embodiments of the disclosure may be referred to herein,individually and/or collectively, by the term “invention” merely forconvenience and without intending to voluntarily limit the scope of thisapplication to any particular invention or inventive concept. Moreover,although specific embodiments have been illustrated and describedherein, it should be appreciated that any subsequent arrangementdesigned to achieve the same or similar purpose may be substituted forthe specific embodiments shown. This disclosure is intended to cover anyand all subsequent adaptations or variations of various embodiments.Combinations of the above embodiments, and other embodiments notspecifically described herein, will be apparent to those of skill in theart upon reviewing the description.

The Abstract of the Disclosure is submitted with the understanding thatit will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of theclaims. In addition, in the foregoing Detailed Description, variousfeatures may be grouped together or described in a single embodiment forthe purpose of streamlining the disclosure. This disclosure is not to beinterpreted as reflecting an intention that the claimed embodimentsrequire more features than are expressly recited in each claim. Rather,as the following claims reflect, inventive subject matter may bedirected to less than all of the features of any of the disclosedembodiments. Thus, the following claims are incorporated into theDetailed Description, with each claim standing on its own as definingseparately claimed subject matter.

The above disclosed subject matter is to be considered illustrative, andnot restrictive, and the appended claims are intended to cover all suchmodifications, enhancements, and other embodiments which fall within thetrue spirit and scope of the present disclosure. Thus, to the maximumextent allowed by law, the scope of the present disclosure is to bedetermined by the broadest permissible interpretation of the followingclaims and their equivalents, and shall not be restricted or limited bythe foregoing detailed description.

What is claimed is:
 1. A method for distributing data process accordingto technical resource capacity availability and constraints across anetwork, the method comprising: performing, using a processor and amemory: receiving, at a database, a feed request for processing; inresponse to receiving the feed request, informing, a data stream and bythe database, of the receipt of the feed request at the database;acquiring the feed request by the data stream; reading and parsing thefeed request for determining at least one attribute of the feed request;identifying, among a plurality of computing resources spread across anetwork, a computing resource for processing the feed request based onthe at least one attribute and processing capacity at the plurality ofcomputing resources; assigning the feed request for processing to theidentified computing resource; processing, at the identified computingresource, the feed request; generating, at the identified computingresource, a downstream transaction for the processed feed request, andsaving the downstream transaction at the database; generating, at theidentified computing resource, a message indicating processing of thefeed request, and saving the message at the database; returning, to themessage feeder, the downstream transaction and the message; and updatingthe database based on the returned downstream transaction and themessage.
 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the identifiedcomputing resource is located remotely.
 3. The method according to claim1, wherein the identified computing resource is located in a cloudnetwork.
 4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the data stream isinformed of the received feed request in real time for processing of thefeed request upon receipt of the feed request at the database.
 5. Themethod according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of computingresources are spread across various geographies, countries orcontinents.
 6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the at least oneattribute includes a priority level for processing of the feed request.7. The method according to claim 6, wherein an amount of delay beforeprocessing is determined based on the priority level.
 8. The methodaccording to claim 1, wherein the at least one attribute includes ageographic location for processing the feed request.
 9. The methodaccording to claim 1, wherein the at least one attribute includes amemory and time limit.
 10. The method according to claim 1, wherein theat least one attribute includes a dedicated processing requirement. 11.The method according to claim 1, further comprising generating a reportbased on information updated on the database.
 12. The method accordingto claim 11, wherein the report indicates, for a computing resource, atleast one of a number of processes running per minute, a number of tasksprocessed per process, time percentage that each process was running,time to process a task, a number of tasks in a backlog, and a number oftasks of a same type in the backlog.
 13. The method according to claim1, wherein the feed request received by the database for processing is afeed request filtered according to an event type.
 14. The methodaccording to claim 1, wherein the at least one attribute includes apriority level for processing of the feed request, and the prioritylevel for the feed request is set by a user or according to an eventtype of the feed request.
 15. The method according to claim 1, furthercomprising: receiving, at the database, a subsequent feed request forprocessing; in response to receiving the subsequent feed request,informing, the data stream and by the database, of the receipt of thesubsequent feed request at the database; acquiring the subsequent feedrequest by the data stream; reading and parsing the subsequent feedrequest for determining at least one attribute of the subsequent feedrequest; checking to determine whether the feed request has beenassigned for processing prior to assigning the subsequent feed requestfor processing; and removing the subsequent feed request from thedatabase if the existing feed request has not yet been assigned forprocessing.
 16. The method according to claim 1, wherein each feedrequest stems from a deal, and the method further comprises ordering offeed requests according to a deal the feed requests stem from, such thatdata for the deal is read only once during processing of a first feedrequest stemming from the deal for faster processing.
 17. The methodaccording to claim 1, wherein a lower priority level feed request isprocessed by a computing resource that is located further way than ahigher priority level feed request.
 18. The method according to claim 1,wherein the feed request is dynamically assigned for processing inreal-time without a predetermined assignment to a computing resource.19. A system for distributing data process according to technicalresource capacity availability and constraints across a network, thesystem comprising: at least one processor; at least one memory; and atleast one communication circuit, wherein the at least one processor isconfigured to: receive, at a database, a feed request for processing; inresponse to receiving the feed request, inform, a data stream and by thedatabase, of the receipt of the feed request at the database; acquirethe feed request by the data stream; read and parse the feed request fordetermining at least one attribute of the feed request; identify, amonga plurality of computing resources spread across a network, a computingresource for processing the feed request based on the at least oneattribute and processing capacity at the plurality of computingresources; assign the feed request for processing to the identifiedcomputing resource; process, at the identified computing resource, thefeed request; generate, at the identified computing resource, adownstream transaction for the processed feed request, and save thedownstream transaction at the database; generate, at the identifiedcomputing resource, a message indicating processing of the feed request,and save the message at the database; return, to the message feeder, thedownstream transaction and the message; and update the database based onthe returned downstream transaction and the message.
 20. Anon-transitory computer readable storage medium that stores a computerprogram for distributing data process according to technical resourcecapacity availability and constraints across a network, the computerprogram, when executed by a processor, causing a system to perform aprocess comprising: receiving, at a database, a feed request forprocessing; in response to receiving the feed request, informing, a datastream and by the database, of the receipt of the feed request at thedatabase; acquiring the feed request by the data stream; reading andparsing the feed request for determining at least one attribute of thefeed request; identifying, among a plurality of computing resourcesspread across a network, a computing resource for processing the feedrequest based on the at least one attribute and processing capacity atthe plurality of computing resources; assigning the feed request forprocessing to the identified computing resource; processing, at theidentified computing resource, the feed request; generating, at theidentified computing resource, a downstream transaction for theprocessed feed request, and saving the downstream transaction at thedatabase; generating, at the identified computing resource, a messageindicating processing of the feed request, and saving the message at thedatabase; returning, to the message feeder, the downstream transactionand the message; and updating the database based on the returneddownstream transaction and the message.